Last night during the Australian media launch for the PlayStation Move, Aussie PlayStation boss man Michael Ephraim made a throwaway comment that 75 per cent of the current functionality of the PS3 has been added since launch through firmware updates. Kind of makes you wonder how they could charge a grand for it at launch.
Verizon just started pushing Android 2.2 to HTC Incredible devices. Incredibles will get even incredilber with Flash 10.1, 720p video recording, and mobile hotspot capabilities. [Verizon]
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What a pleasant surprise. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler went to plug in his Nexus One last night and, lo and behold, he found an unexpected Froyo treat waiting for him. Not all Nexus One users are seeing the bump yet, but it does seem that Google’s starting to roll out the Android 2.2 update on its own phone first. Figures.
That outage you BlackBerry BIS users may have experienced last night was the March 28 BIS 3.0 upgrade happening—in real time!
Last Friday, I was minding my own business when an email from Virgin’s frequent flyer program, Velocity, landed in my inbox. I’d been upgraded to Gold status because I was so close to making the grade. “Kinda weird” I thought to myself, considering I haven’t flown Virgin for over 12 months, “but a free upgrade is a free upgrade”. Except it wasn’t, as the follow up email I got four hours later was so quick to point out.
Sure, the iPhone 3.1 update delivered a host of new features, including the exceptionally tardy MMS, but for some users there was something extra: Crappy battery life.
We totally missed this one: Since most iPod touch users are not upgrading to the latest and greatest version of the iPhone OS, Apple has decided to lower the price to $US4.95. Apparently, some third-party statistics have shown that only 1% of iPod touch users have upgraded to 3.0, an extremely low percentage compared to 44% in the iPhone camp. [9-to-5mac]
Fujitsu is the latest PC manufacturer to announce they’ll be offering upgrades to Windows 7 for all their new machines pre-installed with Vista. It’s not quite free though…
